It's better to avoid waste, waste of time, waste of calories. Most of the things that most people want you to do are wasteful, pointless, better to not be done

It's better to avoid waste, waste of time, waste of calories. Most of the things that most people want you to do are wasteful, pointless, better to not be done. A very valuable skill is to be able to discern bullshit, and decline it. (As an aside, the idea that calculus is hard is a pedagogical failure. Calculus is easy to learn if it's taught well. Most of our education systems actually make learning much more difficult than it is.)